wrrn TIlE 1ST MARINE DIVISION IN DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM              15


   1st Battalion, 5th Marines
   3d Battalion, 9th Marines
   1st Tank Battalion
   Detachment, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion (2 companies)
   Platoon, Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion
   Company C (reinforced), 1st Combat Engineer Battalion
   Detachment, 3d Low Altitt~de Air Defense Battalion

Task Force Shepherd (Composite Light Armored Infantry Battalion)
   Headquarters, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   2 Companies from 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   2 Companies from 3d Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   Anti Tank Platoon, Headquarters Company, 3d Marines
   Platoon, Company C, 1st Combat Engineers Battalion
   Detachment, 3d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion

11th Marines
   Headquarters, 11th Marines
   3d Battalion, 11th Marines
   5th Battalion, 11th Marines
   1st Battalion, 12th Marines

Combat Support:

Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion
1st Reconnaissance Battalion (-)
1st Combat Engineer Battalion (-)
   Detachment, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion (24 AAVs)
Rear Area Security: 2d Battalion, 7th Marines

   Unlike the mechanized task f:~rces of the 1st Marine Division, which
consisted of two infantry battalions and a tank battalion, the British 7th Armored
Brigade was built around two tank battalions and one infantry battalion.2~ The
two units proved to be remarkably compatible and the employment of the
brigade proceeded without incident. During November and December, 7th
Armored Brigade was positioned generally on the division's left flank.       It
consisted of:

Headquarters, 7th Armored Brigade
Queen's Royal Irish Hussars (tank battalion)
Scots Dragoon Guards (tank battalion)
Staffordshire Regiment (infantry battalion)
Queen's Dragoon Guards (reconnaissance squadron)
40th Field Artillery (artillery battalion)
21st Royal Engineers Detachment (engineer battalion)
Brigade Maintenance Area (combat service support detachment)